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The delegation will leave on Sunday morning from the Basilica of Charity night becoming the Campus de la Rambla de Benipila after touring several councils and taste typical products.
The president of the Brotherhood encourages people to join the march on foot, on horseback, by car or bicycle.
The Brotherhood of the Romeros San Ginés makes final preparations of different carts and carriages that will support the XXXI Pilgrimage to be held on Sunday 24 August, with the collaboration of the Department of Celebrations of the City of Cartagena.
The procession will concentrate at 8 am at the Basilica of Charity where he made ​​an offering of flowers to save her virgin and be called.
Then he will leave for the church of San Ginés, where ten will officiate a Mass, the carts will be blessed and will be offered with a chocolate buns to regain strength.
The image of the patron saint of Cartagena then take one of the roads and start your journey of 30 kilometers per councils. The first La Aparecida where an offering will be held in the chapel of Charity and wine will taste sausages and typical land .
The following is the Ermita de Roche, where he will have lunch with a large paella washed down with cold beer and melon.
In the afternoon the procession reach Camachos where after making an offering to the Immaculate Conception will be refreshed with the pilgrims to return to Cartagena slush.
The arrival at the fairgrounds Rambla is provided on a quarter past nine in the evening, where there will be a great festival with live performances.
The president of the Brotherhood of the Romeros San Ginés, Andrés García, invited to participate in the pilgrimage to all who want to spend a fun day in a good atmosphere.
According to Garcia can do approaching a time or all day;
on foot, by bike, car or horse, open to all citizens being tastings.
SIDE EVENTS OF A COFRADÃ
Meanwhile the Brotherhood of San Ginés de la Jara has organized a series of events, more religious, on Sunday 24 and Monday 25, feast of the patron will be held.
So on Sunday at 20.30 hours there will be a parade and an offering of flowers or food to Caritas, which will visit various streets of the Barrio San Ginés de Cartagena, and the participation of people wearing the typical costume Cartagena.
Already in the parish, at 21 am, will be the proclamation by Santiago Diaz Izquierdo, president of the Association of the Year Procesionista and Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country.
On Monday, at 19 am, a Mass will be by José Manuel Martínez Rosigue, pastor, chaplain of the Brotherhood and the Brotherhood of Romeros, newly appointed pastor of Calasparra and Rector of the Shrine of Our. Ms. officiate. Of Hope.
Then there will be a procession with the statue of the saint by Avenida Ingeniero de la Cierva in which there will be participants in regional costumes.
On arrival at the temple traditional bazaar Scrolls Bread San Ginés, whose profits will be donated to the Hospital of Santa Teresa, ending with a chocolate scones will be held.
Both the parade of offerings as the procession will be accompanied by the Band of Bugles and Drums City of Cartagena, the Slum Torreciega
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San Ginés de la Jara is a character that Christian medieval legend locates in the vicinity of Cartagena.
Popular stories tell of a hermit established by the Mar Menor in earlier times to the Arab rule in what are now the ruins of the monastery that bears his name.
It is said that he was of noble birth and even find their origin in France.
According to some theories, it would be the same Genesius of Arles, whose feast is also celebrated on August 25, when he died a martyr.
According to tradition, in the year 1677 was declared in Cartagena a serious epidemic that struck children, and the city, to lessen the force of the terrible ailment, would implore the clemency of the patron of the city, but no one knew who he was, nor in the town there was a history file.
Councillors put in a pitcher many roles with names of saints, and a boy took one, resulting in the San Ginés de la Jara, whom the city named by acclamation your employer.
San Ginés in Cartagena shares his patronage of the Virgin del Rosell and the Virgin of Charity, considered the latter as the popular patron.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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